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The outcome was the willingness to reuse rubber dam isolation at the 1-week follow-up. Forty-seven newly enrolled patients were reserved as a same-center temporal validation cohort, and the remaining 259 patients formed the development cohort, which was divided into training and held-out test sets in a 7:3 ratio. Data regarding 26 demographic, clinical, procedural, nursing-related, and post-treatment experience variables were collected. Preprocessing, recursive feature elimination with cross-validation, and hyperparameter tuning were integrated within a fully nested cross-validation pipeline using the training data only. Six machine-learning models were compared. SHapley Additive exPlanations and generalized additive models were used for exploratory model interpretation. A sensitivity analysis excluding satisfaction level was also performed.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Overall, 246 patients were willing to reuse rubber dam isolation and 60 were unwilling. The Light Gradient Boosting Machine model showed the best exploratory performance, with area under the receiver operating characteristic curve values of 0.939 and 0.983 and F1-scores of 0.94 and 0.96 in the held-out test set and same-center temporal validation cohort, respectively. Recursive feature elimination retained 12 predictors. SHapley Additive exPlanations analysis suggested that satisfaction level and postoperative visual analog scale score were the leading model-associated factors. After satisfaction level was excluded, the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve decreased to 0.820 and 0.840 in the two evaluation cohorts. Given the small temporal cohort, especially the 14 patients unwilling to reuse rubber dam isolation, this estimate was considered preliminary and potentially imprecise.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The model identified satisfaction, postoperative pain, discomfort-related factors, and procedural variables associated with willingness to reuse rubber dam isolation. 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